uw-frame
MyUW shipped 22 releases of uw-frame in 2016, from verion 2.0.1 to 3.0.3. uw-frame is the framework in which we develop angularjs-portal. uw-frame is also the framework in which we and other groups in the University of Wisconsin develop applications for inclusion in the portal. Writing a frame-based app is conceptually an alternative to writing a Java Portlet.

adopted Material Design

improved theme support

handled session timeouts proactively

cleaned up the way uw-frame is adopted in frame-based apps

sourced dependencies from CDNs

Microservices
The MyUW team shipped eight releases of a growing slate of supporting microservices in 2016.

KeyValueStore

lti-proxy

rest-proxy

rssToJson

token-crypt

We also participated directly in the development or release engineering of four Apereo WebProxy Portlet releases in 2016.

MyUW services
We develop these and other software products in order to operate them in the MyUW portal.

MyUW delivered around 10,000,000 user sessions in the course of serving UW-Madison and the entire University of Wisconsin system in 2016.

MyUW eases discovery of and navigation to other systems. In 2016, users followed a link in MyUW out to something outside MyUW more than 8,000,000 times.

Besides helping users navigate to other applications, MyUW helps users understand what they need to do and where they might need to navigate. MyUW presented its full notifications experience (not just the indicator that the user has a notification) around 100,000 times in 2016.

Not all MyUW content relevant to all users can fit on default home pages, so MyUW supports users searching and browsing the available content. MyUW presented the directory of applications around 100,000 times and provided search results in around 100,000 user sessions in 2016.

Once you’ve searched or browsed to something interesting, you can add it to your home page. Users modified their home pages almost one hundred thousand times in 2016, including adding the new Wiscard Balance widget almost 6,000 times.

Looking forward
Let’s do more to serve the portal needs of higher education and the University of Wisconsin in 2017.